Meaning and Origin
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Origin and Meaning of Ohm
User Submitted Origins
Thai
49%
German
25%
Indian (Sanskrit)
23%
Danish
3%
User Submitted Meanings
- A user from India says the name Ohm is of Hindu origin and means "Hindu god Murugan".
International Interest
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Webster's Unabridged Dictionary
noun Ohm
The standard unit in the measure of electrical resistance, being the resistance of a circuit in which a potential difference of one volt produces a current of one ampére. As defined by the International Electrical Congress in 1893, and by United States Statute, it is a resistance substantially equal to 109 units of resistance of the C. G. S. system of electro-magnetic units, and is represented by the resistance offered to an unvarying electric current by a column of mercury at the temperature of melting ice 14.4521 grams in mass, of a constant cross-sectional area, and of the length of 106.3 centimeters. As thus defined it is called the international ohm.
Etymology: So called from the German electrician, G. S. Ohm
Other Dictionary Sources
- German physicist who formulated Ohm's law (1787-1854)
- A unit of electrical resistance equal to the resistance between two points on a conductor when a potential difference of one volt between them produces a current of one ampere
Wiktionary
After Bavarian physicist Georg Ohm. German surname, first recorded 12th century, from German Ohm (“uncle”), from a Proto-Germanic word. Compare Dutch oom (“uncle”).
- In the International System of Units, the derived unit of electrical resistance; the electrical resistance of a device across which a potential difference of one volt causes a current of one ampere. Symbol: Ω
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